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Frederick Chapman Robbins

1916 - 2003

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Frederick Chapman Robbins (August 25, 1916 – August 4, 2003) was an American pediatrician and virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H. Hickman High School. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller, making Robbins the only Nobel laureate born in Alabama. The award was for breakthrough work in isolating and growing the poliovirus in tissue culture, paving the way for vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Chapman Robbins is the 94th most popular physician (up from 106th in 2019), the 728th most popular biography from United States (up from 792nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Physician.

Frederick Chapman Robbins is most famous for being the founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Frederick Chapman Robbins ranks 94 out of 726. Before him are Herophilos, Jacques Rogge, Theodor Morell, Corneille Heymans, Harvey Cushing, and Bernardino of Siena. After him are Jean Nicot, Peter Canisius, François Duvalier, Djer, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, and Shirō Ishii.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Frederick Chapman Robbins ranks 23. Before him are Olivia de Havilland, Yehudi Menuhin, Jean Dausset, Christian B. Anfinsen, Camilo José Cela, and Claude Shannon. After him are Hans Eysenck, Sune Bergström, Maurice Wilkins, Harold Wilson, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and Walt Whitman Rostow. Among people deceased in 2003, Frederick Chapman Robbins ranks 20. Before him are Nina Simone, Nǃxau ǂToma, Zoran Đinđić, Edward Said, Elia Kazan, and Donald Davidson. After him are Bertram Brockhouse, Leopoldo Galtieri, Gianni Agnelli, Frank Sheeran, Walt Whitman Rostow, and Robert Palmer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Chapman Robbins ranks 728 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Kilby (1923), Margaret Mead (1901), Martin Landau (1928), Francis Fukuyama (1952), James Caan (1940), and Donna Summer (1948). After him are Sidney Sheldon (1917), Eddie Murphy (1961), Reese Witherspoon (1976), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Napoleon Hill (1883), and Maya Angelou (1928).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Frederick Chapman Robbins ranks 6. Before him are Anthony Fauci (1940), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Joseph Murray (1919), William P. Murphy (1892), and Harvey Cushing (1869). After him are George Minot (1885), Michael DeBakey (1908), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Stanley Cohen (1922), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925).

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